Yep, you'd get paid to update Wikipedia all day. It's exactly what it sounds like.

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This wouldn't even be the first Wikipedian-in-residence. UC Berkeley has one, 24-year-old Kevin Gorman, whose program wrote this sexy entry about food deserts at some point. Once you get to the paragraph where he summarizes an "extensive report to Congress in 2009 as a request to reform the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008," you start to realize that anybody not paying somebody to do that kind of work should be immediately sent to the hole in a Supermax prison.

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There are detractors in comments sections who don't think Wikipedia is a legitimate enterprise, but those people don't know that it's easier to lie to Congress than it is to lie on Wikipedia now.

Speaking of that, because of some completely bullshit discriminatory policies, it looks like I'm out of the running. The posting states this Wikipedian should "have an account" and "be in good standing" with the community, which formally (and maybe illegally; I'm calling my lawyer) disqualifies yours truly.

Ever since I updated the Wikipedia entry for Cracklin' Oat Bran to add that the cereal was "made of shoes" and that "Cracklin' Oat Bran was referred to as 'something that tears through your insides like a wolverine at a daycare center' by famed scientist Stephen Hawking," I have not been in good standing with the Internet's encyclopedia.